xv, 271 p. : 25 cm

This book examines the linkages between environmental change and forced migration. This has been a headline topic during the past few years with predictions of “millions of refugees”. It presents case studies from across the world of responses to climate change as well as other environmental changes and examines the role that environmental change plays among the other factors that lead to a decision to migrate

Papers presented at a conference of the same name, held in Bonn in Oct. 2008. Cf. foreword

Includes bibliographical references and index

Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention : pathways to recognition / Bruce Burson -- Institutional barriers to the recognition and assistance of environmentally forced migrants / Chloe Anne Vlassopoulos -- What's in a name : social vulnerabilities and the refugee controversy in the wake of hurricane Katrina / François Gemenne -- Forced migration from sub-Saharan Africa : the conflict-environment link / Wim Naude -- Solastalgia : environmentally induced distress and migration among Africa's poor due to climate change / Petra Tschakert and Raymond Tutu -- Climate and migration : a synthesis / Etienne Piguet -- Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change / Robin Bronen -- 'Buscando la vida' : how do perceptions of increasingly dry weather affect migratory behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? / Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk --

Environmental migration from rainfed regions in India forced by poor returns from watershed development projects / Kaushalya Ramachandran and Padmaja Susarla -- Migration to contaminated sites : migrants' settlements in Central and Eastern Europe built-in places with high environmental and social vulnerability / Richard Filčák -- Migration and natural hazards : is relocation a secondary disaster or an opportunity for vulnerability reduction? / Nishara Fernando, Koko Warner and Jörn Birkmann -- Guatemala : a review of historic and recent relocation processes provoked by disasters of natural origin / Yojana Miner Fuentes and Juan Carlos Villagrán de León -- Environmental factors in Mexican migration : the cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala / Stefan Alscher -- Case study Senegal : environmental degradation and forced migration / Frauke Bleibaum -- The environmental root causes triggering economic migration : the case of Egypt / Tamer Afifi --

A country made for disasters : environmental vulnerability and forced migration in Bangladesh / Alice Poncelet ... [et al.] -- In the land of ostriches : developmentalism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in Turkey / Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu -- Environmental migration : case of Kyrgyzstan / Emil Nasritdinov ... [et al.] -- Linking the earth's future to migration : scenarios of environmental change and possible impacts on forced migration / Johannes Frühmann and Jill Jäger

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